If you want to talk about collecting niches, how about chronographs tied to animation and hand drawn characters" Off the top of my head we?ve got the various Snoopy themed Speedmasters, plus the Tintin, which has absolutely exploded in value in recent years. And then you?ve got Zenith with their watches inspired by Lupin the Third, a popular Japanese manga series. Now, I?m not an anime guy, so I can?t even pretend to be conversant in any discussion of the finer points of this particular series. The Lupin for Dummies version of the story, though, is pretty straightforward: a character in the series is seen wearing a watch that?s clearly modeled on the Zenith A384 chronograph (it does have an unmistakable silhouette), and these limited editions are based on the imagined watches as seen in the series. This third and final version of the limited edition series is quite literally a mashup of the first two. 
The Chronomaster Revival Lupin the Third Final Edition prominently features a two-toned dial that literally combines features of the first two Lupin watches (you can see them in the image slider below). One half of the dial is a glossy black, lifted directly from the first Lupin LE, and the other is an off-white borrowed from the second. The white half has contrasting black subdials at 3:00 and 6:00, and the black half?s lone subdial at 9:00 is set off in gray. Everyone keeps saying that two-tone is coming back, but I have a feeling this is not what they had i...